Yeah, this is a good one to move into 5th place in points with.

There's this story about someone named Craig Price. At age 15, he was arrested and sentenced to juvenile prison for killing four people in cold blood. One of the women he stabbed 62 times; another 58 times. Oh yeah, the one stabbed 62 times wasn't really a woman; she was a 10-year old girl. And the kid showed no remorse for anything he'd done; all he complained about was cutting his own hand during one of the attacks.

Anyway, the problem with all of this is that, in Rhode Island, he could only be sentenced to a prison term until his 21st birthday, where he'd get paroled, and his record would be expunged. The other problem is that he said that, when he was released, he was going to "smoke a bomber"; nothing else needs to be said.

So, the district attorney and one of the investigators who found the bodies worked together to try to change some of the laws. Over the years, they've been able to get really creative in ways to keep this kid in jail. Meanwhile, he'd gotten bigger. When arrested, he was 5'10" and 240 pounds, he was much taller and heavier after being in prison, over 300 pounds of muscle; why do they allow prisoners to lift weights? They finally got him on a odd law they created where they got him for a "parole" violation while he was still in prison, not only for repeated prison problems, but for threatening to kill a prison guard in front of the judge. They've now been able to affectively keep him in prison until his next true parole hearing,... the year 2020.

Usually I might be on a rant on how it's somewhat unfair for the legal system to change its rules like this. After all, most laws aren't retroactive in this fashion. If a criminal commits a crime, then the law changes where it might benefit the offender, that person can't suddenly suffer a harsher sentence. Yet, I also have problems with some of our laws where obviously guilty people with very bad backgrounds and track records are allowed to skate the system in some way and are allowed to get back out and commit the next bit of crime that all of us knew was coming. So, I have to admit that there are times when I believe someone really does deserve whatever it is they get.

So, let's see how everyone else feels about things like this, as we move into the new year.